Is the more powerful burner able to reach and maintain a rolling boil?
32114
Yes it does! This is the best burner I have used.It heats quickly.About equal to an regular electric stove.
32115
The SMALLER burner does this without issue so the big one should as well. I say this because we use it to heat water to melt wax for candles and haven't used the more powerful burner as the pan we use fits perfectly on the smaller one.
32116
Yes we areremodeling our kitchen and i have been using this alot and it cooks just like a reg eye of a stove i hope this helps i an very satisfied with mine
32117
No, I was very unhappy with it, it kept turning off. And they would not give me a refund!
632333
Sorry on this one. But, my son who has used the burner once, said it was a little hard to regulate. Maybe that's a help. But for the price it seems to work very well and regulating it might just be a matter of having a gentle touch. Good luck
475183
Yes, I think it can. There are 2 dials, 1 for on/off and 1 for heat. I turned on the power dial and the rollers didn't start rolling. However, when I just barely turned the heat dial, the rollers did start rolling. I let it run for a few minutes and it didn't seem to heat up. BTW, I love this hotdog cooker -- easy to use and the hot dogs are delicious.
666738
There are a bunch of utubes out there that show you how to bypass the mechanism. Me? I found several small blocks of wood underneath the red button work fine to hold it open for boiling. That's about the only oddity about this burner it's supposed to dry fry at 350 degrees and I only need 212 of them to boil and that trigger would go off. I just found blocks of wood did the trick for me for the last 4 years.
1519293
One user reports "Very high quality build, I got it for home brewing and have done a full 5 gal boil with a 10 gallon pot. However, the boil is not vigorous".. That makes it 50 lbs + weight of pot. Reading his review I would think thats about your limit. Thats a lot for a counter top burner. I have done about 40lbs myself pot & contents. Take all that with a grain of salt of course :-) There are no specs available to state the design limits. I would suggest you contact Vollrath for that info.. They are really nice and very helpful.
837544
Yes, you can adjust your burner to any level you want with this regulator with ease.
1060610
212 is a rolling boil. You do not want that. Try the next two lower settings. I think this gizmo is fun!
1283747
With a one inch supplied connection stepped down at the burner to its 3/4" and a short amount of pipe with an appropriately sized meter it can do ~320,000 BTU with a clean powerful burn. Make sure to proved sufficient air underneath it. I have it run with less then 15' total pipe from the meter to the burner with the meter sized to provide >650,000 BTU. Gas is split between on demand water heater (200,000 BTU) and this burner.
1045028
This unit has the burners too close together. You have to use small pans. It does boil water and the secondary burner runs a little hot. I have used this for 4 months and would not purchase it again. I would look for burners that were a little further apart.
2167184
Not that I saw,but this unit has too much energy to perform that kind of task. It is made for boiling large amounts of water- I use it to make large pots of brunswick stew for example.
2086431
We use the two burners together often and have never noticed any reduction of power or time in cooking... it is true that both burner share the power but normal cooking times and temps have never revealed this to us.
166501
Yes definitely. However I did find that if I had both burners on high there was a marked heat difference between the two burners.
50241
I use mine to can with boils water well but the larger the pot the longer it takes heats up quick and well worth the money I have single and dual burner love them both hope this helps
1446760
I've used my 11 Qt stock pot on the stainless version of the Max Burton 1800 watt burner many times with absolutely no problem. 5 gallons / 25 QTs might be pushing it though. You'd do well to step up to the 3500 watt version for that much water anyway.
1352256
I don't know the answer however it heats very quickly on a conventional burner.
1045027
Absolutely, this little burner does a great job. It does cook anything that you could cook on a regular stove top. It does boil water and does eggs just fine. I have cooked hamburgers on it and boiled potatoes. It does a great job for the money and I would recommend it for sure.
1940188
The burner element of my unit is 7.5 inches. I agree with the other poster who said that there are no problems with boiling water in larger pots. I have some huge pots whose bottom plates are only 8", so it works well with them. The only pot I own that is a little too big is a huge 5 gallon stock pot. Even that will work in a pinch, but it takes forever to boil.